Welcome Investor (or future investor),

I’m glad to have you here on this journey. My goal is to educate you on the markets so you can make clear and informed decisions on how to trade, primarily selling options and owning shares.

Our goal is to extract as much money out the markets with as little volatility (swings in our portfolio) as we possibly can. Options make that possible.

First off…Mr. Market (S&P 500). He doesn’t care what you think. He doesn’t act like professional. He gives you love then quickly takes it away. He plays childish games.

With this in mind, I’m going to make sure you fully understand where the market is going so when you put on trades, you can be profitable.

S&P 500 Analysis

This week we have broken out to new all time highs for the S&P 500. The market is trading around 5830 and in my opinion will hit $6000 by the end of the year with ease. The reason I believe this is due to the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates by 50 Basis points or 0.5%. They plan on doing another interest rate cut by end of year.

What this does is it makes it cheaper for the banks to borrow money, therefore leading to lower interest rates for consumers, which eventually causes more money to flood the system and the markets. Think about when the Fed lowered interest rates to almost 0% back during COVID and the market went bananas in 2021.

I think we will see peak stock market highs somewhere in 2026/2027 so the opportunity to trade is ripe.

Portfolio Update

Today we hit record highs in my public portfolio as well. This is due to a couple stocks really skyrocketing and put option premiums being collected faster than expected. The two stocks that contributed to the most growth were Nvidia and Palantir, my favorite Artificial Intelligence Stocks.

$NVDA

In August, NVDA took quite a dip which caused me to get assigned on all my put options. So I ended up with 1000 shares. Of course I sold covered calls against those shares and at the end of August, they got called away at a profit (I was forced to sell my shares because my covered calls were in the money at 120. I ended making close to 15% on that trade alone.

Fundamentally I still believe NVDA is at its early growth phase as companies like Meta, Tesla, Facebook, Amazon, and Oracle all announced they will be needing Nvidia’s new BLACKWELL chip to power their Ai technologies.

My Current Position On NVDA:

+300 Shares - my average price is $117

Sell 4 NVDA Nov 1 (125) Puts - Collected $400 per contract

$PLTR

I have been selling puts on Palantir ever since it was at $27 back in August. I probably would have been better off holding shares, but mechanically, I rather earn option premium and get assigned the shares at the price i’m comfortable with. The stock has gotten away from me at this point. I believe in this stock as they are profitable, have tons of free cashflow, have been added into the S&P 500 last month, and the CEO is quite a visionary.

My Current Position:

• Sell 7 PLTR Nov 1 (37) Puts - collected almost $700 for all of the contracts

What awaits us this week:

Thursday - Core CPI (Inflation Data) & Jobless Claims

Friday - Producer Price Index (PPI Data)

-Google potentially will be broken up as monopoly.

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-Ryan